Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 49% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 4 December 2042 at 09:19 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2042 after 22 days on 26 December 2042 at 17:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2042 at 14:29
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 December 2042 at 00:28
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2042 at 17:43
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2043 at 06:08
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 530 / 1483
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 530 of Meeus index or 1483 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 530 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than next lunation 531 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠201.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠232°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 25 November 2042 at 22:40 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 December 2042 at 00:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 398 418 km
Moon is 398 418 km (247 565 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 435 km (251 926 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 24 November 2042 at 01:03 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 December 2042 at 05:37 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 29 November 2042 at 03:21 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.344°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.294° in the next southern standstill on 13 December 2042 at 13:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 12 December 2042 at 14:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.